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Politico is reporting that Chip “I’m Rubber, You’re Glue” Saltsman, the candidate for the chairmanship of the RNC not endorsed by the TNGOP’s Robin Smith, is still refusing to apologize for including a very suspect song about Barack Obama on his Holiday Mix CD.

Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman blamed the media Tuesday for the uproar over a CD he sent out in December that included a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro.”

Saltsman did not apologize for sending out the song, a parody referring to a 2007 Los Angeles Times column of the same title that is written to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon.” He said during an interview on MSNBC that the episode exposed media bias.

“We’re definitely not playing on a level playing ground with the media on that issue,” Saltsman said. “I mean, there was no outrage when the L.A. Times article coined that phrase.”

Questioned by host Contessa Brewer why he was pointing a finger at the press, Saltsman responded: “Contessa, I’m asking you, were you outraged when you read the article in the L.A. Times a year and a half ago?”

“It was a parody Christmas gift, and I sent it out without even thinking about what was on it,” he said. “Obviously, when you do something like that, you don’t want to offend a lot of people when you do. That’s something you don’t want to do. And, you know, hopefully that we’ll move on, talk about the future of the party.”

Note to Chip, thinking is of the good.

UPDATE: Saltsman gets the smackdown by a lady in a silken bow. (h/t Kleinheider & Pith)